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Legionella micdadei brain abscess.

Marthe Charles1, Edward Johnson, Andrea Macyk-Davey, Monica Henry, Jan-Erik Nilsson, Lil Miedzinski, George Zahariadis.   

Abstract

We describe an immunocompromised patient who developed a large frontal brain abscess caused by Legionella micdadei. This is, to our knowledge, a rare case of culture-proven Legionella central nervous system infection.

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Year:  2012        PMID： 23224082      PMCID： PMC3553901          DOI： 10.1128/JCM.02160-12

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Clin Microbiol        ISSN： 0095-1137            Impact factor:   5.948


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